CYNOPSIS EVENTS AT NATPE 2009

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Cynopsis: Kids!

01/23/09

Good morning. It’s Friday, January 23, 2009, a history making day, and this is your first early morning Kids briefing.

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 81st Academy Awards yesterday morning.  Receiving nods for best animated feature film are Disney’s Bolt, DreamWorks’ Kung Fu Panda and Disney’s Wall-E.  Including best feature film, Wall-E earned a total of six nominations, including for: best in musical score; song  Down to Earth, music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, lyrics by Gabriel; sound editing; sound mixing; and original screenplay  screenplay by Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon.  The Academy Awards will be handed out Sunday, February 22, 2008 on ABC (8p), live from the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center.  The Oscars will be televised in 200+ countries worldwide.  Congrats to all!  A full list of Oscar nominees can be found at http://www.oscars.org .

NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT

Coolabi Productions inks a deal with Joel Gotler of Intellectual Property Group on behalf of The Viney Agency, for the dramatic rights for novelist Chris Bradford‘s Young Samurai ( www.youngsamai.com) kid’s book series.  The Young Samurai revolves around Jack a British boy stranded by shipwreck in 17th century Japan, and his endeavors to become the first foreign samurai with the help of a legendary swordmaster.  The first volume in the Young Samurai trilogy, The Way of the Warrior was published by Puffin in August 2008 and is now in its sixth printing. Disney-Hyperion will publish in the US this March 2009.  Further publishing rights deals have been completed for fifteen foreign language territories with more deals TBA in 2009.

Warner Bros. is looking to bring Hanna-Barbera‘s Tom and Jerry back to the big screen as a family movie franchise, per Variety.  The movie will be a mixed live-action and animated Tom and Jerry movie, with Tom and Jerry being animated and set in a live-action environment.  Produced by Dan Lin‘s Lin Productions (producer-Sherlock Holmes, exec. producer-Terminator: Salvation) and penned by Eric Gravning, the movie is sort of a prequel that shows how Tom and Jerry meet and how their rivalry develops and then how they have to work together to get home after getting lost in Chicago.  Warner Bros. has worked the mixed animation and live-action concept in other feature films including adaptations of Hanna-Barbera’s Scooby Doo, and then Looney Tunes characters in Space Jam (1996) and Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003).  You may also recall that Warner Bros. released Tom and Jerry: The Movie in 1992.

Abigail Breslin (Kitt Kittredge, Little Miss Sunshine) signs on for three feature films including two animated pictures, according to Variety.  Breslin will lend her voice to a character in Gore Verbinski’s CG animated feature film Rango from Paramount, also starring Johnny Depp who plays a family pet.  She will also voice the lead character in the animated movie The Wild Bunch, about a group of wildflowers attacked by evil genetically modified cornstalks.  The Wild Bunch is from Israel-based Animation Lab, and has a star studded cast including Willem Dafoe, Willie Nelson, Elizabeth Hurley and Chris Klein.  The final project for the young Breslin is Zombieland; the Columbia horror picture is not so much for kids.

MORE KIDS STUFF

Sesame Workshop‘s new incarnation of its 1970s series, The Electric Company (35×30), settles into its regular weekly time on Fridays on PBS Kids Go! beginning today (check local listings).  The new The Electric Company series debuted on Monday, January 19 with a tw0-hour sneak peek marathon. ( www.pbskidsgo.org/electriccompany )

VeggieTales will be seen on the Gospel Music Channel (GMC), as part of a new pact between the network and Big Idea, Inc.  Under the agreement Big Idea will provide GMC with VeggieTales specials, including two world TV premiers for the network, and episodes of VeggieTales for limited runs.  GMC will premiere VeggieTales Abe and the Amazing Promise, a new DVD title, on Saturday, February 7, 2009 (DVD February 10).  Leading up to the debut, the channel will feature a limited edition two-week run of select VeggieTales episodes weekday mornings January 26-February 6.  A second two-week run will of the kid-targeted series will be featured on GMC this April in advance of the network’s premiere of the special VeggieTales An Easter Carol.  Big Idea is a subsidiary of Entertainment Rights

HIT Entertainment and TV Azteca, a free TV channel in Mexico, have launched a new HIT-branded preschool TV block, Ninos Siete, in Mexico Sundays 7-9a, as well as a corresponding website ( www.nsiete.tv ). The block features wrap-around interstitials hosted by three kids (a 12-year-old girl and her 10-year-old twin brothers) and offers a range of series from HIT libraries including Barney & Friends, Bob the Builder, Thomas & Friends and Pingu, among others.  TV Azteca is supporting the new block with promotional spots across its networks, with HIT is promoting Ninos Siete on www.barney.com . Additionally, Ninos Siete will also be featured on 170,000+ HIT DVDs across eight titles to be released in 2009 in Mexico, as well as through Barney Magazine, Kena Magazine and other popular women’s titles from Editorial Armonia.

Freakatars, a new kid-targeted “creating and collecting” combo social community and interactive game online site and offline play, has launched into phase one of public beta at www.freakatars.com . Designed for K3-11, Freakatars lets users create and care for their own creations, and plan also to add limited edition parts, virtual goods and games among other features.  Founded and helmed by Adam Jacobs, Freakatars.com is currently free, but upcoming plans include a subscription plan for Q3 2009, as well as selling virtual and physical goods and collector cards.  Get going now and you can start saving up your Freakies to acquire stuff later.

STONE SOUP

Call for creative kids:
Arthur is getting a new pal for his PBS Kids Go! series, and is looking to real kids to help create that friend.  Arthur and CVS Caremark All Kids Can, a program designed to make life easier for kids with disabilities, are teaming for the Arthur/All Kids can Character Search.  Kids 6-12 are invited to submit their ideas for a new character, specifically one with a unique ability, trait, or disability, with a drawing and description of what makes that character special from February 1 through March 31, 2009.  Entry forms and rules can be found from February 1 at www.pbskidsgo.org/arthur/allkidscan.  The kid with the winning character will be featured in a live-action segment on an episode of Arthur, and Arthur creator/author Marc Brown will visit their town.

RATINGS

Nickelodeon’s film Barnyard Movie, made its debut on Nickelodeon on Monday, January 19, 8-10p, where it was the top show for the night on broadcast and cable TV among K6-11 (1.5 million) and Tweens 9-14 (1.3 million) up by +18% and +16% respectively versus last year.

Live + Same Day Ratings Kids Cable Network Averages (000) for Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 6am-11pm, ranked by K2-11:
NICKELODEON:         K2-11 1117; K6-11 478; TWEENS 9-14 338
DISNEY CHANNEL:     K2-11   738; K6-11 477; TWEENS 9-14 378
CARTOON NETWORK: K2-11   538; K6-11 359; TWEENS 9-14 242
TOON DISNEY:           K2-11   168; K6-11   92; TWEENS 9-14   63
Source: MTVN Research from Nielsen Media Research Data

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Friday Fun Fact:  Often referred to as “gentle giants”, the largest Newfoundland dog on record weighed 260 lbs. and measured over 6 feet from nose to tail.  (Did you know Cynthia has a Great Pyranees which weighs in at 175 lbs and is 5’6″ from nose to tail?)

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:  Who was the voice of Pebbles on The Pebbles & Bamm Bamm Show, an early ’70s spin-off of The Flintstones?  SALLY STRUTHERS   Kudos to: Howard Rosenstein-Meredith Video Solutions/NY; Dave Landesberg-SloaneVision Unlimited/NY; Michael Hawkins-PromoDoctors/Irving, TX; Richard Quan-Imaginary Time/San Francisco; Al Ovadia-Al Ovadia & Associates, Inc./Hidden Hills, CA ; Rob Chatlin-FX Network/LA; Jamie Kokiw- Segal Licensing/Toronto

Today’s Trivia Question:  What is the name of Little Bill’s hamster? (Email Joanne@cynopsis.com with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: Only the second four correct answers from each time zone will be mentioned; and once you’ve been mentioned in any of the Cynopsis editions, you can’t be mentioned again that calendar week.)

Later — Gwen
 Gwen Billings for Cynopsis Kids!
01.23.09

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